android update custom notification sounds

Thank you for your work around for the lack of custom sounds on IOS. This will have to do until Arlo pick up their game and tackle custom iOS notification sounds (and fix the smart detection issue). Get a seperate email app that allows changing the notification sound and attach that email to it. I use Outlook mail so this was fairly straightforward but it might not work for you.Īnother solution you could try, which I have not tested, is to have the email alerts sent to a custom email address that you set up only for Arlo alerts. To counteract that I went into my mail app in the browser and made a custom rule to delete specific emails automatically (e.g “Animal detected” in subject line). One problem I had is that Arlo was sending me animal and other alerts that I had turned off in Smart Alerts (I think this is a known and reported issue on this forum). Trigger an alert and confirm that you receive a VIP email with custom alert. Go to your iPhone settings app > mail > notifications > customise notifications > VIP > turn on Alerts and choose a sound (I use Presto) Open the email, click on the sender and choose the option to make them a VIP Trigger an alert, you will receive the alert email fairly quickly (but check your junk too). Adjust your smart notifications in the app for whatever suits you (I.e I have turned off animals for mine). Go into your Arlo app and under each rule for motion detection turn on email alerts (make sure they are going to your email address attached to your mail app). You will have issues if you are already using the VIP feature of mail. The solution relies on email notifications to the mail app, which are then flagged as VIP mail which triggers a custom sound. This won’t work for everyone but it might help some.

Hello all, just wanted to share my workaround for custom iOS notification sounds for smart alerts (detection of person, vehicle etc).

Android update custom notification sounds